Opinion

It was very difficult to comprehend the thinking behind the supreme court’s decision to hand out a suspended 15-month jail sentence to a public employee found guilty of bribery ...

The furore involving a Savannah cat named Berton this week has again highlighted the long-standing issue of the importation of exotic animals into Cyprus and the possible consequences, in this ...

By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou THE WAY THINGS ARE Death is the most certain thing in life, everything dies. And the hideous variety of ways by which death gathers its dues ...

The endemic plants of the island make its flora incredibly unique By Johannes Rötzer Summer, 2018. This was the first time I had the chance to visit Cyprus and fall ...

It’s hard to fathom why everyone is getting so excited about the latest ‘spying scandal’, but those shouting the loudest – like opposition Akel – are only interested in manufacturing outrage, ...

For a country that is not traditionally associated with sporting achievements, a tally of 11 medals at an international event such as the Commonwealth Games is quite the result. It is ...

Biggest rate increase for 27 years By St John Coombes This week the Bank of England increased interest rates by 0.5 per cent, taking interest rates to 1.75 per cent. This is the ...

By Richard Cowan A few Democrats in the US Congress have begun to voice what many have mulled privately: whether President Joe Biden, the oldest person to ever occupy the ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides Recent developments suggest that the US and the EU are moving towards stagflation, that is the coexistence of inflation and low economic growth, with ...

At a massive cost to us all – except the oil companies “I urge people everywhere to send a clear message to the fossil fuel industry and their financiers: that this ...

By Michele Groppi The killing of the al-Qaida leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in Kabul by a US drone strike on July 31 raises some crucial questions. It appears the ruling Taliban were ...

In the last paragraph of my article, published in the Cyprus Mail and in Alithia, on October 4, 2017, I wrote: “I want to believe that the Greek foreign minister understands that ...

The first case of monkeypox was reported in Cyprus last Tuesday (two more were reported on Saturday), prompting a small but predictable wave of hysteria. The mother of the 40-year-old ...

Last week’s Covid numbers were really encouraging. Six thousand cases (down from 10,000 the week before) and 76 people in hospital, down from 104. Yet the health minister gave no hint that ...

Our View: Education ministry should be asking smarter questions Representatives of two groups supporting the rights of children with disabilities on Monday walked out of an education ministry conference that ...

The hysteria surrounding Gesy that is gripping the country has moved from last week’s target, the president of the Cyprus Medical Association Petros Agathangelou, to the head of the ...

There has been a lot of discussion in the past few weeks about Cape Greco and people diving from the beauty spot near the sea caves and how this could ...

As one of the most populated in the Mediterranean, the island already suffers from the consequences of marine pollution By Anastasis Karonias Pollution from marine litter is among the most ...

A document, published in Phileleftheros on Sunday, which contained the supposedly missing minutes of a July 4 meeting that the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy Espen Barth Eide had with ...

Could there have been any doubt that the president would send back the bills by which VAT on fuel and electricity bills would have been scrapped until the end of ...

Very few politicians seem to grasp the magnitude of the coming crisis, its impact and its costs Europe’s energy security is on a knife edge. The concern that there ...

By Dr Panayiotis Mavros People are proud of their history as it expresses their national ideals, culture, traditions and aspirations. It has passed down from generation to generation forming the ...

You have probably already read – some of you have probably already studied – the work of the twelve-member Eastern Mediterranean Think Tank, which constitutes a coherent and comprehensive proposal for the ...

By Louisa Borg Haviara Human trafficking is divided into forced labour and sex trafficking. According to the latest Global Slavery index (2018) over 40 million men, women or children, are current victims ...